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The Lazy Tour of Two Idle ApprenticesIn the autumn month of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, wherein these presents bear date, two idle apprentices, exhausted by the long, hot summer, and the long, hot work it had brought with it, ran away from their...

IntentionsCyril (coming in through the open window from the terrace). My dear Vivian, dont coop yourself up all day in the library. It is a perfectly lovely afternoon. The air is exquisite. There is a mist upon the woods, like the purple bloom upon...

Letters from the CapeIf Lady Duff Gordons Letters from the Cape are less familiar to the present generation of readers than those of the Lady Anne Barnard, the neglect is due in great part to the circumstances of their publication. After appearing in a...

An Ideal Husband[The room is brilliantly lighted and full of guests. At the top of the staircase stands lady chiltern, a woman of grave Greek beauty, about twenty-seven years of age. She receives the guests as they come up. Over the well of the...

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 "Il est bon de connaitre les delires de l'esprit humain. Chaque peuple a ses folies plus ou moins grossieres." PART I.History of Alchymy from the earliest periods to the Fifteenth Century.Pretended Antiquity of the Art.Geber.Alfarabi.Avicenna.Albertus Magnus.Thomas...

Our Mutual Friend BOOK THE FIRST THE CUP AND THE LIP Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter...

Sketches by Boz, Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People The whole of these Sketches were written and published, one by one, when I was a very young man. They were collected and republished while I was still a very young man; and sent...

Lemorne Versus Huell The two months I spent at Newport with Aunt Eliza Huell, who had been ordered to the sea-side for the benefit of her health, were the months that created all that is dramatic in my destiny. My aunt was troublesome, for...

My Garden Acquaintance ONE of the most delightful books in my father's library was White's "Natural History of Selborne." For me it has rather gained in charm with years. I used to read it without knowing the secret of the pleasure I found in...

The Boy Captives: An Incident of the Indian War of 1695 THE township of Haverhill, even as late as the close of the seventeenth century, was a frontier settlement, occupying an advanced position in the great wilderness, which, unbroken by the clearing of a...

Yankee Gypsies I CONFESS it, I am keenly sensitive to "skyey influences." (2) I profess no indifference to the movements of that capricious old gentleman known as the clerk of the weather. I cannot conceal my interest in the behavior of that patriarchal bird...

Little Britain In the centre of the great city of London lies a small neighborhood, consisting of a cluster of narrow streets and courts, of very venerable and debilitated houses, which goes by the name of LITTLE BRITAIN. Christ Church School and St. Bartholomews...

Life in the Iron-Mills; Or, The Korl Woman A cloudy day: do you know what that is in a town of iron-works? The sky sank down before dawn, muddy, flat, immovable. The air is thick, clammy with the breath of crowded human beings. It...

The Duchess of PaduaThe Market Place of Padua at noon; in the background is the great Cathedral of Padua; the architecture is Romanesque, and wrought in black and white marbles; a flight of marble steps leads up to the Cathedral door; at the foot...

A History of Aeronautics Although successful heavier-than-air flight is less than two decades old, and successful dirigible propulsion antedates it by a very short period, the mass of experiment and accomplishment renders any one-volume history of the subject a matter of selection. In addition...

A House of PomegranatesIt was the night before the day fixed for his coronation, and the young King was sitting alone in his beautiful chamber. His courtiers had all taken their leave of him, bowing their heads to the ground, according to the ceremonious...

Reprinted PiecesWhen the wind is blowing and the sleet or rain is driving against the dark windows, I love to sit by the fire, thinking of what I have read in books of voyage and travel. Such books have had a strong fascination for...

The Golden Sayings of Epictetus, with the Hymn of Cleanthes Are these the only works of Providence within us? What words suffice to praise or set them forth? Had we but understanding, should we ever cease hymning and blessing the Divine Power, both openly...

The Love of Ulrich Nebendahl COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY JEROME K. JEROME COPYRIGHT, 1908, BY DODD, MEAD & COMPANY Published, September, 1908 Perhaps of all, it troubled most the Herr Pfarrer. Was he not the father of the village? And as such did it not...

The Soul of Nicholas Snyders; Or, The Miser of Zandam COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY JEROME K. JEROME COPYRIGHT, 1908, BY DODD, MEAD & COMPANY Published, September, 1908 Once upon a time in Zandam, which is by the Zuider Zee, there lived a wicked man named...